ASCII

An acronym for American Standard Code that allocates a number to each key on the keyboard and that can be traded and read by most computer systems.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard assignment of 7-bit numeric codes to characters. See also Unicode.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (a 7-bit character set adequate only for poorly representing English text). Often used loosely to describe the lowest 128 values of the various ISO-8859-X character sets, a bunch of mutually incompatible 8-bit codes best described as half ASCII. See also "Unicode".

the acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange - a coding scheme that specifies bit patterns for individual characters for computer processing.

Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The standard code used for information interchange among data processing systems, data communications systems, and associated equipment in the United States. Note 1: The ASCII character set contains 128 coded characters. Note 2: Each ASCII character is a 7-bit coded unique character; 8 bits when a parity check bit is included. Note 3: The ASCII character set consists of control characters and graphic characters. Note 4: When considered simply as a set of 128 unique bit patterns, or 256 with a parity bit, disassociated from the character equivalences in national implementations, the ASCII may be considered as an alphabet used in machine languages. Note 5: The ASCII is the U.S. version of International Reference Alphabet (IRA) No. 5 (formerly International Alphabet No. 5, or "IA5") as specified in ITU-T Recommendation T.50.